Posted on 03/31/2006 5:51:08 AM PST by areafiftyone
FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S.
"This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States, Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI's budget.
In a stunning revelation, Mueller admitted that Hezbollah had succeeded in smuggling some of its operatives across the border, telling the House committee:
"That was an organization that we dismantled and identified those persons who had been smuggled in. And they have been addressed as well.
Hezbollah was responsible for the single most deadly terrorist attack against the U.S. before 9/11 - the Oct. 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 243 U.S. troops.
In November, an al-Qaida operative who was on the FBI's terrorist watch list was captured near the Mexican border, housed in a Texas jail and turned over to federal agents, according to Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas.
"A confirmed al-Qaida terrorist, an Iraqi national, was held in the Brewster County jail," Rep. Culberson told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity. "He was captured in Mexico. This was within the last six weeks. He was turned over to the FBI."
All this crap about bills in the senate and in the house is so much hot air. It's an election year and there is no way any such laws will be enforced.
The elites (Senators and Reps) in Washington thumb their noses at us and mock us.
This SHOULD make the Pubs in congress sit up and take notice and toughen their resolve and actions on illegals.
It won't....
It's quite incredible that this story is absent from the MSM. Bush ought to hold a prime-time press conference to discuss it and make the MSM look bad...well, if it didn't make his own Administration look so bad for downplaying border security. ;)
Our Sentors and Congreemen are ignoring the American public big time and are only interested in appeasing the illegals, not realizing that the people who came into this country legally and vote want to see our borders secured.
Yeah by catching terrorists.
They can't hear you.
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Very true -- they tuned out the REAL American public a long time ago...the will of the majority in America has no meaning in Washington any more. Obviously...
According to its latest annual report, in 2001, ACCESS got at least 73.6% of its $10.2 million annual revenue from taxpayers. ACCESS, North America's largest Arab welfare agency, funded commercial driving lessons and attempts to get hazardous-materials hauling certificates for Ahmed Hannan and Karim Koubriti, members of Detroit's recently indicted al-Qaida cell. When confronted by the press, ACCESS chief and Michigan regent candidate Ahmed dismissed their al-Qaida membership as a mere "political credential."
I had never even heard of them before. And reading stuff like this makes me realize it's almost definite we're going to end up like France.
Did you know that Mueller won't even say the words terrorism and radical Islam in the same sentence? I've lost hope that anyone takes the threat seriously.
We can hope. But with pathetic enforcement of the existing immigration laws, I don't hold much hope that we have shut the door to terrorists. Bush is not doing anywhere near what he could be doing to fix this problem.
This administration has not even provided the necessary manpower to patrol the borders. From what I have heard he has held back putting more and significant BP agents on the border.
Iranian funds and training led to the rapid growth of Hezbollah's military wing
That's not a shock, there's only three reports on it.
NewsMax, The Albuquerque Tribune (at the bottom of the article), and some page out of Canada.
The dimwits in DC won't get it until the Capitol Building is obliterated while Congress is in session.
Build The WALL, Enforce The LAW!
How do you know that, they caught these guys and with the help of the mexicans it looks like.
But you use stories like this to further another agenda.
Like I said where was your outrage when a terrorist was caught at the Canadian border. Where was your call for a 3,000 mile wall on the Canadian border.
According to post #22 on that thread:
The demonstrators are to include members of LASED, the Dearborn-based Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), some Catholic churches in Detroit, and the Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength (MOSES).
Got to build the wall be fore you can adequately enforce the law.
Here's a good analogy:
When a ship springs a leak you have to plug the leak before you can EFFECTIVELY bail out the water.
And there's the fat white guy in a suit. I wonder who he is?
ping
Is this a sign that Mueller is doing an end-around the Bush reservation on immigration and attempting to influence the houses of Congress?
I could go on and on about the rather startling implications veiled in official-speak in Mueller's announcement Tuesday, but I'll just end with my gut feeling that he's doing what I hope he's doing, trying to awaken the venal DC politicians who are arrogantly ignoring the public will.
Leni
Yep just doing the job American Terrorists (Democrats) won't do.
If anyone still thinks control of our Southern Border is ONLY about jobs.
They need to wake up and smell the coffee
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